Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-02-01
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Professional humorists are engai


in New York to arouse after-dinncr
merriment-M y. Sun.
Twenty miles of snow sheds, cost
ing 1000. 600. have been built recent
ly By Canadian railway company.
1T is not good policy to say things
before children that you would not
have repeated. 1t is the little things
that tell.--BostOn Transcript.
Piedmont, Ga, comes forward with
the claim of having within its limits
tree that drops snow from its
Branches at regular intervals.
The oldest bank building in this
country is situated in Albany, N. Y. 1t
was erected in 1903, and has been oc-
eupied by one conceln ever since.-
Albany Journal.
Some persons have the habit of ex-
claiming, Don't talk to me!' They
should reflect that possibly the offender
would not, only he has got to talk or
bust.-M. Y. Mail.
AT Port Jervis, N. Y, recently the
railroad ticket agent was floored by
the following query from we'll
dressed man: "Will this train coming
now leave before the one going nextp"
There are about 200, 600 men inter-
ested in brass bands, either as players or
makers of instruments. There are
80, 600 brass bands in this country at
the present time, and their number is
rapidly increasing. y Sun.
-Eighty-fve persons climbed Mount
Blanc last year. Ten of these were
Americans. They found plenty of
room at the top. There is always
plenty of room where the mass of man
kind does not care to go. Boston Post.
The average mans opinion of hu-
manity is not fiattering. In his heart
Of hearts he is aware that he is himself
a remarkably poor lot, and yet he con-
siders himself. on the whole, little
better than anybody else.-M y Times.
The people of the United States pay
more for Brazilian coffee than the value
of all the merchandise exported to the
whole of South America. The coffee
costs S0,000.000. The exports are
little less than S2S,0O0, ,O00-- Chicago
Times.
"A St. John IN. By liquor dealer
who has been amusing himself by
blowing horns and otherwise disturb
ing the Salvation Army when they
pass his place, was rotten-egged re-
Gently by number of young men who
were desirous of teaching him better
sense.
Henry Thornton moved his sitting
room stove to the smoke-house last
April. The other day he cleaned it,
preparatory to putting itup again, and
found among the ashes live Goals that
must have been smoldering for six
months. He had burned hickory
wood in the stove.-N Y. Herald.
"A tramp who was jailed in Indiana
the other day had three scars from bull
let's, two bruises from clubs, seven fresh
dog-bites and a black eye, and yet he
kicked vigorously about being put into
warm room where he would have
plenty to eat and find perfect rest for
the next sixty days.-Detrou Free Press.
The King of Cambodia, according
to the correspondent of Paris jour
nal, has three hundred wives, chosen
from the handsomest women in the
whole country. The entire population
and territory belong to the King. All
the Cambodians are the Kings 'ear-
meni or slaves. and pay him rents.
The King himself belongs to the French
Resident-General.
"A Georgia paper publishes as truth
the story of a Marion County farmer
who became satisfied that he had
tapeworm. So he carefully baited IL
little fishhook, tied short line to it,
swallowed the hook and tied the line to
his button-hOle. Then he waited for
bite. BY and by he thought he had
one and yanked the line; the hook
caught in his throat and had to be dug
out. He didn't catch the worm.
Murder, or plotting to murder, is
a heinous crime the world over. If
man advises another or pays another
to commit murder it is as difficult for
him to escape punishment MS it would
be did he commit the murder himself.
II man murders another and fees
the country to escape punishment in
ternational laws contemplate his re-
turn to the scene OF the murder for
punishment Chicago Inter Ocean.
"A San Diego citizen boughta ticket
for San Francisco and sat down on the
pier until the boat should be ready to
start. He became much interested in
the work going on, the passengers hur.
rying down, the gangplank pulled in,
and the lines cast off, and expressed
pleasure at the sight of the big steamer
as she left the pier. Then he remem-
bered he wasn't on board, but his bag
gage was, and his language was some-
thing shocking. San Francisco Chron-
icie.
The ingenuity of our fellow beng
is great; man with two wooden legs
has placed himself upon perfect
equality, as TO covering ground quick
ly. with any other individual who pos
sesses two flesh, bone, muscle and
blood combinations. He was seen
scuddiiig along Broadway one morning
this week on tricycle.. which he drove
to perfection by means of his wooden
pins, which were fastened to the shafts
to prevent slipping M Y. Herald,
Lieutenant A. M. Fuller, OF the
Second United States Cavalry, during
his recent service in Arizona was de-
tdlleu 10 Specliu uuJy uS SlRHul oiuCoI.
Signals were flashed by mirrors. from
five 10 forty miles. So nearly perfect
is this system of communication by
sun-flashes that trial message of
twenty-five words was sent recently
over two hundred mile line, and an
answer of the same length received at
the starting point in twenty minutes
time. Chicago Journal.
The average duration Of life has
been made the subject of fresh investi-
cation by a German statistician, who
finds that the lowest average is for the
day laborer (thirty-two years), and the
highest among those who engage in
manual toll is among the gardeners,
sailors and fishermen, tifty-eight years.
The professional occupations come
even above regular open air occupa-
tions, as the averages given show for
ty-nine years for physicians, fifty-four
for jurists, fifty-seven for teachers and
sixtY-seven for clergymen.
Revenge Is Sweet.
She WASN'T { very Young, but she had